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Today's heavy rains wreaked havoc on the city of Detroit today, closing roads and freeways, stranding motorists and perhaps most debilitating — flooding a hospital.

According to the Detroit Medical Center, heavy rains caused flooding at Harper Hospital in Midtown, forcing officials to cancel non-urgent operations so that emergency cases can be handled in unaffected areas of the DMC. Certain diagnostic cases also will be delayed.

"All other DMC operations are running normally," a DMC spokesperson said in an e-mail to the Free Press. "We regularly prepare for situations like this and have plans in place for responding to weather-related incidents."

Detroit has seen some of heaviest rainfall today as parts of the city have recorded up to 4 inches of rain so far, with another three-quarters of an inch expected overnight. By comparison, the 2014 floods that left widespread devastation across metro Detroit saw between 4-6½ inches of rain, though that fell during a four-hour period. This time around, the rain fell over a longer period of time, with lighter periods in between. Rain is expected to last through Sunday.

But it's been messy and ugly in the city so far. The Lodge Freeway under Cobo is shut down because of heavy flooding, which left some vehicles almost completely submerged. Parts of Jefferson Avenue were shut down. Residents in the tony Indian Village neighborhood have struggled to get down their streets, with some reporting basement flooding.

Stretches of 8 Mile bordering Detroit and Oakland and Macomb counties were flooded deeply through the morning. An 8 Mile underpass below train tracks between John R and Woodward was impassable. Downtown Detroit traffic was snarled as drivers maneuvered around flooded streets and the shutdown of the northbound Lodge Freeway.